Flint, David, 1919- , Professor of Accountancy and Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow, Scotland

David Flint was born in Glasgow in 1919, and attended the High School of Glasgow. He studied at the University of Glasgow from 1935-1939 and graduated Master of Arts in 1939 and Bachelor of Law in 1942 . Flint served as a Major in the Royal Corps of Signals during the Second World War, when he was mentioned in despatches.

He became a partner in the accountancy firm Mann Judd Gordon & Co, and lectured part-time at the University of Glasgow from 1950 to 1960. Flint was Johnstone Smith Professor of Accountancy from 1964 and was appointed to a new Chair of Accountancy in 1975, which he held for ten years. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1971 to 1973, Vice-Principal from 1981 to 1985, and awarded the honorary degree DUniv in 2001.

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